RE: The Need to Breed
August 19, 2012 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2012 at 2:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It was offered as a solution. Yep. It ,may have never been your point, and it certainly isn't mine.
But, lets approach this from the angle of resources and the landscape doesn't change. A very small number of us (who already engage in an unintentional population control scheme) consume the vast quantity of the worlds resources. If we told people in the third world to stop having kids, that won't change the rate at which those resources are depleted, because they aren't the ones depleting them.
If global warming is a byproduct of the population problem, then again I'm going to have to ask you to explain why so few contribute so much to that problem? Why isn't it the seething masses that are raping this place? Why is it the lucky few?
I don't think it's a problem unless we are absolutely dead set on continuing to consume resources wastefully. Eliminating or curbing that waste may seem like a more difficult solution, but judging by the success of population control thusfar it doesn't seem like the "easy answer" worked very well, and we haven't given the -hard work- answer a fighting chance. I'd rather see us toil away at that first, because it seems to be a prerequisite for population control to be effective in the first place, and the overall limits we'd have to set on ourselves would be much better understood and fleshed out (and we'd have a solid argument for the individual being told not to have another child) if we went that route first.
But, lets approach this from the angle of resources and the landscape doesn't change. A very small number of us (who already engage in an unintentional population control scheme) consume the vast quantity of the worlds resources. If we told people in the third world to stop having kids, that won't change the rate at which those resources are depleted, because they aren't the ones depleting them.
If global warming is a byproduct of the population problem, then again I'm going to have to ask you to explain why so few contribute so much to that problem? Why isn't it the seething masses that are raping this place? Why is it the lucky few?
I don't think it's a problem unless we are absolutely dead set on continuing to consume resources wastefully. Eliminating or curbing that waste may seem like a more difficult solution, but judging by the success of population control thusfar it doesn't seem like the "easy answer" worked very well, and we haven't given the -hard work- answer a fighting chance. I'd rather see us toil away at that first, because it seems to be a prerequisite for population control to be effective in the first place, and the overall limits we'd have to set on ourselves would be much better understood and fleshed out (and we'd have a solid argument for the individual being told not to have another child) if we went that route first.
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